Amentep

I have no inside knowledge, but I suspect that if you sent it on the 22nd, it probably wouldn't even be looked at / queued for action until at the earliest the morning of the 23rd (Monday) with all the other weekend reports. Since you've emailed support, keep us updated here and we can see if we can attract developer eyes to the issue if you don't hear from them.

I liked Disney Infinity, but their initial insistence of not setting a made toybox experience where every toy could mixed and played in a full experience was a big mistake. Even if they did a "you have to play it once with the themed characters then it opens up to anybody" would have worked better. But I mostly wanted to play the Pirates ship battles with any character... ;____; Lego didn't start off with that handicap, but its interesting how quickly the Toys-to-Life stuff hit and collapsed as Skylanders is also on hold.

The psychologists I read (and its been a long time but I think at least one was a trauma specialist) believed avoidance led to depression and helplessness. I think at their best or most charitable, the Trigger Warning isn't intended to encourage avoidance, but approaching the material on terms of managed expectations. And that's where I'm a bit torn - not being an expert I can see why the experts would think avoidance is a problem and that trigger warnings could lead to avoidance (albeit in college classes, you can only avoid so far before your grades suffer), but I'm also not sure avoidance is the intent (even if its the outcome - which perhaps points to a need to work on the issue rather than scrap it, perhaps). Titus may not be his best but it is his goriest (even if Lavinia's rape and mutilation is off stage). That said, I think what you say may be the crux of the issue on this debate - I think - that it'd be fair to say that the intention of trigger warnings isn't that to protect people from experiencing a trauma that would send them to therapy, but to protect people from reliving an already extant trauma that they are still coming to grips with (with therapy or not). Or to put another way, its not the case of a sheltered man or woman being incensed at encountering a fictional rape and mutilation, but someone with PTSD who may relive their own rape by reading of a fictional one that is intended to be protected.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-18-the-sad-slow-death-of-lego-dimensions In unsurprising news, WB and Traveler's Tales announce that Lego Dimensions is being wrapped up a year earlier than planned, with no new content being made.

I think its a reference to Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic". You know other than the trauma psychologists who I mentioned and their data/fear that trigger warnings might be counter-productive to healing, I don't really understand the issue with trigger warnings such that people have such a strong knee-jerk reaction to them.

I dunno, would you feel comfortable complaining to a guy about someone being mean to you on an internet forum (which is basically what the report function is for), when that someone thinks legitimate psychological trauma is something to be dismissed with derisive laughter? I mean, what kind of mod response would you expect from someone like that besides "boo hoo, man up you little bitch"? (Not that I actually have a problem with the guy on the mod team, he's way too lazy to ever actually do anything legitimately harmful by misusing his powers. Or, y'know, his job.) When reports are made, even in a forum where any particular forum level mod is a mod, the entire team sees it, including the global mods. So regardless of any issue an individual poster might have with any individual mod, one should feel comfortable reporting a post knowing that many eyes of people with many different perspectives will review the report. Well, actually, flaming and trolling is allowed against normal users, as per the rules (as the anti-trolling rule very specifically says that trolling is only disallowed against other game companies, employees, and moderators...and the anti-harassment rule is too limited to cover flaming), so actually, that literally does seem to be the prescribed response. An interesting approach for a game dev's forums - I have not seen its like anywhere else in the industry. It certainly has its pros, but uh, it also has its cons, as you can see. As far as I know flaming and trolling isn't allowed against normal users either. Just because the language in the trolling section doesn't specifically forbid it doesn't mean it'd be allowed (although I'd argue its already covered under 'harassment' - "We ask that the users of this board treat one another with respect, even when opinions differ." - or the general rule - "In general, our guidelines are based on the fundamentals of common sense, respect and tolerance."). That said, what one person feels is trolling, flaming or harassment may not appear as such to someone who isn't involved in the situation or who views it with a charitable eye. Again reporting posts is generally the best way to approach issues as it will be seen by multiple people with a consensus being formed. Also I think WoT - by its nature - is given somewhat more latitude to be conversational than the game-specific forums.

Ah, I guess that's good then.

G = No cursing PG = No nudity R = No penetration Not: "Hey, someone you know got crapped on and this movie shows someone getting crapped on, so beware. There's been a lot of debate about the arbitrariness of how the MPAA rates movies. Such as productions callously using the f-word once to guarantee a PG-13 rating. Also PG films (prior to PG-13) allowed brief, non-sexual nudity. What PG-13 did was ultimately sanitized PG to the point that its hard to determine what it allows that isn't in a G film, and allow more kids to experience almost-R films.

How finely granulated should this consideration be? If even one person has an issue? 5? 10? I'm not sure volume matters, like all discretionary warnings it'll take on the broadest necessary function if its done in a faceless way; if talking about PTSD it'd probably be a warning about content that correlates to the most common sources of PTSD (rape, abuse, war). I understand the argument that I think you're implying - unlike a peanut allergy which has a specific correlation between person an item - it might be impossible to trigger warning every possible source of PTSD without putting a trigger warning on life itself. I imagine - and again that is if ultimately trigger warnings are proven useful - that there will be some broad standard eventually adopted.

The best intention of a trigger warning is to try to allow the PTSD sufferer to prepare themselves as best as possible for something that may "put them back" at the point of their trauma (which may be terrifying, but isn't necessary a state of 'abject terror'). As I mentioned I think the psychological science on the subject is divided over it from my own (admittedly limited) reading, but I'm not sure in and of itself is a dumb idea. If a strict avoidance is helpful in recovery, then clearly it'd be the opposite of dumb to encourage. If - as some of the literature I've read is true - that it may not help the long term recovery of a PTSD sufferer, than I'd argue its misguided rather than dumb.

I think there are two main concerns - Does it help? If the student still has to experience the 'triggering' content does knowing about it actually make a difference? Does it hurt? If the student continues to avoid triggering content, are they keeping themselves from healing over the long term? ...How are these even questions? Literally everybody I spoke to who actually attends or lectures at university told me that yes, these things are useful, yes, they help students cope with material that is difficult for them to process, and no, nobody is actually exempt from the normal requirements for successfully completing the course. Trigger warnings don't exist to protect the precious fee-fees of students, they exist to allow them to digest the texts on their own terms. I can't believe there are people who are arguing - no doubt from a position of ignorance, but ignorance should not be an excuse - that there is a positive societal value in expecting people to engage in a demanding intellectual activity while in a state of fight-or-flight panic mode as opposed to, y'know, giving them a heads-up that 'hey, this material might be difficult, so go ahead, take a minute, and prepare yourself so you can engage with it properly'. There are some from the psychology/psychiatry area who argue (or have argued, I'm not up to date on it so they may have had further research) that trigger warnings only cause more issues than they solve (I think Richard McNally at Harvard and Metin Basoglu at King's College are the two I remember reading comments from). At the core of their view was the idea that avoidance not only does not alleviate, but instead may worsen, PTSD (and I believe Basoglu further claims that it can further feelings of helplessness and depression as well).

I think there are two main concerns - Does it help? If the student still has to experience the 'triggering' content does knowing about it actually make a difference? Does it hurt? If the student continues to avoid triggering content, are they keeping themselves from healing over the long term?

I think the effective difference is that if something comes up on TV with content you don't like, you can flip the channel or turn off. The content of a course isn't something you can opt out of. Its for that reason that I think a lot of academics feel that the warnings 'help' as you can't avoid the content. I think the crux of the matter is whether the trigger warning is ultimately effective - ie to complete the course you still have to experience the content and so the question is, is it possible to effectively mitigate that with simple foreknowledge. If the answer is 'no' then the question is raised of what purpose the trigger warning serves (and is it a step on some slippery slope type of thing) and if the answer is 'yes' then certainly they can have a place provided you look at whether in so protecting the individual are you slowing down their own progress towards recovery or speeding it along. And I don't think there's any one answer to that.

That only leads to him handing you out things that prove you already had what you thought you didn't have and needed all along. Then he jumps into a hot air balloon and departs, accidentally.

You could always add trailers that you'd like to see here...

I think it's intentional (although it may backfire ) to distinguish it from the other Marvel x-men films

New Mutants Trailer expected to be a loose adaption of the Great Demon Bear story.

Well they are unconnected other than being listed as things that the Administration apparently has a beef with UNESCO over (so perhaps that "while" should have been another "and").

My understanding, regarding taxes, is that a citizen in Puerto Rico would pay Puerto Rico's taxes on worldwide income, then US taxes on worldwide income excluding income derived in Puerto Rico. Then there is a tax credit in Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico income tax based on the US tax, up to a specific limit. Obviously if your sole source of income is within Puerto Rico, you wouldn't pay any US tax. They also end up paying Social Security, Medicare, import, export and commodity taxes.

We left UNESCO before, in the 1980s, as I recall. In addition to the PLO thing (and referring to Israel as an "occupying force" while not condemning Syria when their civil war broke out), I think there is also the fact that one of the candidates for the new director-general of UNESCO has allegedly made anti-semetic statements and is still in contention.

Well its supernatural evil multi-dimensional batmen from the dark multiverse who kicked his ass though, so there's that.

I was expecting more of this:

The director stated an influence by Tarkovsky; I'd say the pacing of BR2049 demonstrates that pretty well. It is a very deliberately paced film.

I thought the SW trailer was fine - I think the way its edited there may be a lot of setting up McGuffins rather than really revealing anything. I haven't seen the original since it's release, I wasn't particularly bowled over by it enough to remember more than the basic premise, would I need to rewatch it, or could I go into the new one with just the basic knowledge? Do not watch the theatrical cut then. There have been a few different Directors Cut editions released. They are much better. Ridley Scott didn't have the juice to tell the studio heads to bugger off when they were screwing up his movie in 1986. 1982, surely? I stand corrected! And don't call you Shirley? I liked Blade Runner 2049, there's a lot going on. I will say as a mass market film, the glacial pacing is surely to work against it, but it sets up some interesting ideas and themes to meditate on.

Tell them your wife is making you quit Tell them that someone touched your lucky dice and your mojo is broken and you can't possibly continue until you've found new lucky dice Tell them that you've joined a group and are now LARPing as a non-gamer Tell them that you're moving out of the area; when they see you again, tell them plans changed but you felt it was too awkward to return to the group Insist that your character is reclassing as a bard and that all of your communication from there out will be done in iambic pentameter and/or in song - they'll ask you to leave. If you are already playing a bard and doing this...what the hell? Ask the other members about some loans you've given them - they'll avoid you. Ask the other members to make you a loan - they'll avoid you. Come dressed as your character, and start treating the others as their characters and not themselves. They'll ask you to leave. Come in wearing a cast on both arms and say you've developed Carpal Tunnel syndrome from rolling dice and your doctor is making you give up dice games. Come to a game session with no pants on. Tell them that you feel RPGing is liberating, and wink while doing so. They'll ask you to leave. Have your character turn secretly evil and kill all the other players or die trying. Afterwards loudly proclaim to the group that "you're just like the others!" before storming out. Tell them your children have started asking your wife who that "strange man" is while pointing at you, and that you realized you're not spending enough time with them. The next time you miss a roll, stand up screaming "The other DMs doesn't treat me this way". Flip the table and storm out. Tell them it's not them, it's you. Steal everyone's dice, blame your dice bag, which you claim is a mimic. During combat, show everyone how you imagine your character should do a complex maneuver, making sure that you fall and break the table you play on. Blame your old war wound Eat baked beans before gaming sessions - they'll ask you to leave Tell them that someone is posting incorrect information on the Obsidian forums, and you need every free moment you have to correct them.